With 2012 less than 2 months away, I want to start making plans for what 2012 will bring to the site. I would love to have the input of my readers, to see what y'all are wanting to see more of. I have been thinking about posting a survey once a month or so. This will help me find out what all of you are wanting to see on Dizzy Mommy Chronicles. Whether is be more recipes, or more reviews/giveaways. Maybe one month work it to where I offer more family friendly recipes, and the next month more family friendly products. This way it will help spread out the content a little better. Or I can do so many recipes a week, and so many reviews a week. I have been leaning towards using survey monkey, I have seen a lot of other bloggers using it, and over all it looks like it is pretty simple to use. Has anyone personally used survey monkey? If so how do you like it, is it pretty simple to use, or one of those things that would give me a headache trying to figure it out. I am also thinking … [Read more...]

If you have ever moved whether is be across town, or across country, you know how stressful it can be. Not only do you have to pack, you also have to clean as you go. If you have children, it is twice as bad. The reason being, you have to pack for more people. Moving can be extremely stressful. We recently did a long distance move, and I can tell you this, I wish we would have hired a long distance moving company. Long distance moves are not only stressful on the adults but also the children. Chances are they're leaving all their friends behind, and that alone can be scary. A few tips I have learned during this moving trip that may help you have a less stressful move are... #1 Plan a head, make sure you have everything taken care of months before the move, slowly pack that way you are not rushed. When we decided to move we had less than 2 months, to pack and get everything cleaned up. Not fun, this left my husband and I fighting due to being stressed. I would have much … [Read more...]

Please be advised the video below is disturbing... What you just seen is our justice system at work. In the above video is a family court judge from Texas, he beat his 16 year old daughter with a belt, for almost 8 minutes because she used the internet. This should NEVER be allowed no matter who the parent is, yes I believe sometimes children need their behinds spanked, however, I do not believe a belt is needed. This is what is wrong with our justice system we are getting corrupt officials into office. With going through the family courts when I was younger, and having friends and family going through them now, they are not their for the children, if you do a search on this judge you will see in many cases where he favored the abusive parent. When will we say enough is enough. It is time we get the corrupt judges out, and the ones that give a damn about the safety and welfare of our children in. When I lived in Tennessee, I seen in the paper where a female judge … [Read more...]

We often forget to show recognition to those who deserve it. How many times have you busted your butt off at work, and not even got a thank you. I know I have, I know my husband has, and I know thousands of others out there have as well. Wouldn't it be nice if your boss said thank you every so often, so you knew the work you were doing was being recognized? Sometimes all it takes is a little something to show those working hard that their work is being noticed. One way to show recognition is with pins. Handing out pins for a job well done will put a smile on the ones receiving its face. It will let them know you have noticed, and all their hard work isn't a waste. They have sports pins, awareness pins, school pins, and they also have nursing pins. However, pins are not just for recognizing a job well done, or ones accomplishments, they are also worn to show you support a cause, such as breast cancer, or even autism. Matter of fact, that is a great way to show you do support the … [Read more...]

When laying down a rug to help offset a room, which color to you prefer? I prefer darker colors, with darker colors if the kids spill something on it, it tends to blend in. Take red rugs for example, ketchup from those dropped burgers that tend to stain, will not show as bad. Clean it up, and any of the mess that didn't get cleaned up before it set, will be unnoticeable. Just like kool-aid, I don't know how many times my daughter spilled kool-aid on the floor only for it to leave a huge stain, and everything I tried only lifted the stain a small bit, having a darker color rug helps hide the mess your children make. I have personally learned this the hard way. Before my husband and I had our daughter we had light colored carpet, after she arrived and got older we had to replace the carpet with something that would allow the stains to blend in. I had tried cleaning the carpet as well as stain removers, but the stains were already set and nothing I tried worked. Although I still … [Read more...]

How many of you have plans for tomorrow? My sister and I are going to take the kids around the neighborhood, and freeze out butts off! We took them to a small event last night and it took me about 3 hours to get warmed back up. One thing I miss about Tennessee is the weather. I got spoiled to not very cold temps for long periods of time. Granted it isn't much warmer down there right now, but it is still warmer. Last night the kids got to feed apples to the goats, paint pumpkins, and go from trunk to trunk getting treats. Over all it was pretty fun, I really wish Halloween was like it once was when we were kids. I remember when 6 o' clock came we were out the door going door to door. Now you have to be super careful going door to door, and there is no way I would allow my daughter to go by herself. To many things could happen now days, it seems as the years go by the people in it get worse and worse. Granted there are a lot of good people out there, there are also a lot more bad … [Read more...]